The League of American Theatre Women is awarding us the Lortel Award for showing “great creative promise”.  There’s a luncheon today at Sardi’s honoring us, which is quite exciting.  To find out more about it, check this out. 

We had a cold reading of Tommy’s Beautiful Night - which is about Leon (we referred to him as “Lev” - ooh) Theremin and his wife Lavinia Williams.  The reading featured Bruce, Alex, Tommy’s friend Nena Mediah (who is a Bat).   And it was pretty great to hear it.

Then, we all went out for our last night in New Haven to good ol’ Sullivan, which during our halcyon times at Yale, used to be called “Cavaugh’s”.  The group split up (shockingly!) into smokers and non-smokers.  Do people actually still smoke?  Apparently, they do.  Seriously.  Lots of smokers at Yale - every other person walking through cross-campus seems to smoke.

Tomorrow is our last day.  We’re also going to have presentations of Brett’s The Revival and Molly’s Firehouse 17. 

Dig rehearsal from Tommy Smith on Vimeo.

Michael McQuilken (man in video) and I are going to Prague Theatre Festival later this month to perform our co-written show “A Day In Dig Nation”. We just re-staged the opening; Michael needed this for rehearsal purposes. Rehearsal space is my loft. Imagine an intricate projection sequence going on behind Michael, illustrating the sound & foley…

Musical from Reggie Watts on Vimeo.

Reggie Watts and I curate a performance event “Occurrence” at Ars Nova. Our show last week featured a commissioned piece by the Neo-Futurists, a standing monologue by Mike Daisey, Lathrop Walker, Beth Hoyt, Havilah Brewster and more. We also shoot short films for the event, and we paired this one with “On Playwriting”. Reggie and I wrote and directed this. I don’t really know what it means.

“On Playwriting” from Tommy Smith on Vimeo.

The first in a series of web videos commissioned by The New York Council for Poets and Playwrights (NYCPP).